Category Archives: Miscellaneous

The Royal Garrison Church of All Saints was built in 1863 following the government’s 1857 decision to make Aldershot a permanent military camp. 

Men of the initial draft of the 3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment (colloquially known as 3rd Mons, and mainly recruited from the Gwent area) parade at Abergavenny in South Wales in August 1914.  Part of the 83rd Brigade, 28th Division, they … Continue reading →

Not exactly your average Sunday, as we find ourselves in a school hall somewhere in the depths of leafy Surrey – and we do have a lot of leaves in Surrey, being the county, apparently, with the most trees in … Continue reading →

What do you think this is all about? 

Time, as we all know, is a creeper.  One minute you’re starting a brand new website and hoping that someone, somewhere, will find it of interest, and the next, you’re staring at years of work with tens of thousands of … Continue reading →

Beauty, beneath skies of grey. 

For the first time in over three years, come the morning I shall once again be heading off to drag Baldrick, kicking & screaming, doubtless, around Flanders’ soggy fields.